“The Khan Academy is a dressed up YouTube channel and purportedly the statistical tracking and indication of “progress” is what is driving any sense of engagement. Learning at these levels requires more than watching videos (or lectures) and doing exercises. Related posts: PowerPoint: embedding YouTube video. eLearning Khan Academy Video YouTube References. link].

Think of 'World Class' in this context as delivering exceptional or inspiring lectures, talks, presentations, etc. Secondly, you might argue that we should get rid of lecturing all together to revive University learning to be relevant to the world beyond, as its' learning effectiveness is being questioned by many. Let's just tackle the lecture for now. Why wait? Extend List.

Record yourself explaining the course material, introducing yourself to students, or presenting a mini-lecture on the topic. And fortunately, you can easily insert videos from YouTube using two ways: Use PowerPoint itself. How can I insert a YouTube video in PowerPoint? Embedding a video from YouTube into PowerPoint 2013 is pretty simple, as the program comes with a YouTube button. You will see that the first option is YouTube. It is possible to add a YouTube video in PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 as well, but the process is more complicated.

The fastest way to find educational videos is YouTube; some interesting and comprehensive channels to start with are: YouTube.com/Teachers – a list of resources that was »created to help teachers leverage video to educate, engage and inspire their students. For teaching and studying short videos work best – check out how to create a micro lecture and preferably keep them under three minutes.

When I read articles like Why free online lectures will destroy universities – unless they get their act together fast I’m generally more amused than informed. The article does make one important point about the value of online lectures – after all, we should record anything that can be captured without a significant loss in value. Until we have an elected president or prime minister who was self-taught on TEDTalks or YouTube, universities will continue to play an important role And untrue. Utter nonsense. Are universities providing value for learners?

Can recorded lectures replace university professors? In this article, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales makes the bold claim that university lectures “are doomed.” Recorded lectures. have learned so much in the past few years from YouTube channels like The Big Think, SciShow, Crash Course, and more. We’re shaking things up in 2013 here at #TalkTech! In the U.K.,

YouTube another MOOP (Massive Open Online Pedagogy) Learning will not be televised, it will be digitised. – from Donald Clark. Some notes I took: Lecture capture: It’s dumb not to record lectures. Khan Academy: 2800 videos;110 million viewed on YouTube. and/or. More pedagogic change in 10 years than last 1000 years: Donald Clark at TEDxGlasgow [video]. Have to give more than 1 chance to hear a piece of content. Repeated access to content matters. Short chunks of information. Flipped classroom. Sebastian Thrun. Flipped classroom. Social media. Scalable.
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Creating lectures, rearranging them and uploading the content is a dream. When I couldn’t figure out how to delete a lecture, for example, I found the solution via someone else who had raised a similar problem. Udemy assumes that the bulk of your course will be lectures. None of these things is a lecture, but they’re called one nonetheless. While Udemy allows you to pick the thumbnail of each video lecture, it offers you only a limited selection. The method for deleting a lecture isn’t obvious. thoroughly enjoyed using Udemy.
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One of the concepts in training that has taken the biggest strides this year has been that of the “flipped classroom.” My colleague Jon Matejcek first covered it back in March in his article “ Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of the Classroom.” Essentially, the idea is to upend the traditional teaching model of classroom lecture followed by personal practice at home. Instead, instructors can deliver lectures via YouTube as homework, and then spend the next day in class helping their pupils work through sticking-points.
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Recent years have seen a significant number of Nobel Prize Winner Lectures become available via web based video. Given these lectures are found upon many diverse web sites, the Northstar Nerd decided such an important knowledge domain should have it's own search engine. Thus, I am happy to roll out a new search engine dedicated to these lectures. MIT World Nobel Lectures. YouTube: Honeywell Nobel Initiative. YouTube: NobelPrize.Org Channel. If you know of other Nobel Lecture Video Series, please contact me. Nobel Prize.
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